MaggZ is a movement-sound artist, creative director and producer-researcher of Tibetan and Chinese-minority descent. MaggZ is trained in ballet and now specialised in waacking - a freestyle dance originated in 1970s LA from the Latinix and African American queer community, predominantly involving arm movements. Rooted at the intersection of street dance, site-specific installation and technology, extending into somatic and relational research and community-building with sustainability, MaggZ’s practice is hybrid, timeless, visceral and unapologetic as they constantly outbox themselves. MaggZ’s soundscape is deeply intimate, visceral, tender and penetrative, with the influence of ambient, experimental electronic sound, reggaeton and jungle.
MaggZ founded (nexus) in 2024, an experimental community initiative of exchange and interdisciplinary research, cultivating infrastructures to support a culture of innovation, experimentalism and discovery across the dance community and beyond. MaggZ is appointed as Young Artistic Directorate at Next Wave in 2023 (Melbourne, Australia), Producer in Residence in 2022 (Melbourne, Australia), and producer / performance art consultant at Collide24 in 2022 (Berlin, Germany). MaggZ is also the recipient of the Young Creative Awards in 2020, nominated four times by the Green Room Awards, as well as the winner 4v4 waacking Waack Inferno Vol.3 in 2023, 2v2 allstyle Destructive Steps, 2v2 allstyle Waack Inferno Vol.2 dance battle in 2022.
MaggZ founded (nexus) in 2024, an experimental community initiative of exchange and interdisciplinary research, cultivating infrastructures to support a culture of innovation, experimentalism and discovery across the dance community and beyond. MaggZ is appointed as Young Artistic Directorate at Next Wave in 2023 (Melbourne, Australia), Producer in Residence in 2022 (Melbourne, Australia), and producer / performance art consultant at Collide24 in 2022 (Berlin, Germany). MaggZ is also the recipient of the Young Creative Awards in 2020, nominated four times by the Green Room Awards, as well as the winner 4v4 waacking Waack Inferno Vol.3 in 2023, 2v2 allstyle Destructive Steps, 2v2 allstyle Waack Inferno Vol.2 dance battle in 2022.